Photos of the Day: April 23, 2015

A selection of some of the best photos from around the world made available on April 23, 2015 by the Associated Press.

Coffins are shoulder carried in Msida, in the outskirts of Valletta, Malta, Thursday, April 23, 2015, during a funeral service for 24 migrants drowned while trying to reach the Southern coasts of Italy. The migrants died as a smuggler’s boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off the coast of Libya on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean’s deadliest known migrant tragedy. (AP Photo/Rene Rossignaud)

The Calbuco volcano erupts near Puerto Varas, Chile, Thursday, April 23, 2015. The volcano erupted Wednesday for the first time in more than 42 years, billowing a huge ash cloud over a sparsely populated, mountainous area in southern Chile, and is considered one of the top three most potentially dangerous among Chile’s 90 active volcanos.(AP Photo/David Cortes Serey/ Agencia Uno

Chicago White Sox’s Jeff Samardzija, center, fights with Kansas City Royals players during the seventh inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 23, 2015, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Andrew A. Nelles)

Members of the Georgia Southern Nursing program console one each during a candlelight vigil and memorial service for five nursing students who were killed in a multi-vehicle accident, Thursday, April 23, 2015, at Georgia Southern’s Statesboro campus in Statesboro, Ga. The deadly, chain-reaction crash early Wednesday on Interstate 16 involved six vehicles. (Ian Maule/Savannah Morning News via AP)

A woman walks between balloons part of an art light installation in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday night, April 23, 2015. Bucharest hosts the Spotlight International Light Festival for the next three days.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Tampa Bay Rays center fielder Kevin Kiermaier makes a diving catch on a fly ball by Boston Red Sox’s Mookie Betts during the fifth inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 23, 2015, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)

Royal fan Terry Hutt, aged 79, with his Union flag designed outfit, flags and signs stands across the street from the Lindo Wing of St. Mary’s Hospital in London, Thursday, April 23, 2015. Britain’s Kate the Duchess of Cambridge is expected to give birth to her second child with her husband Prince William at the hospital in the coming days or weeks. A small number of dedicated royal fans are waiting or camping outside the hospital awaiting the imminent birth. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

In this photo made available Thursday, April 23, 2015, migrants crowd and inflatable dinghy as rescue vassel ” Denaro ” of the Italian Coast Guard approaches them, off the Libyan coast, in the Mediterranean Sea, Wednesday, April 22, 2015. European Union leaders gathering for an extraordinary summit are facing calls from all sides to take emergency action to save lives in the Mediterranean, where hundreds of migrants are missing and feared drowned in recent days. (Alessandro Di Meo/ANSA via AP Photo)

New York Mets’ Bartolo Colon (40) tags out Atlanta Braves’ A.J. Pierzynski (15) during the sixth inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 23, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

A woman prays as others lay hands on her during Saint George’s Day celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, April 23, 2015. Popular devotion to Saint George is very strong in Rio de Janeiro, where the saint vies in popularity with the city’s official patron Saint Sebastian, both saints’ feast days being local holidays. Afro-Brazilian religions also venerate Saint George as the African deity Ogum, the warrior god. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Light shines on a mourner as bishops process into Holy Name Cathedral for the funeral Mass of Cardinal Francis George on Thursday, April 23, 2015 in Chicago. George died last Friday at age 78 after a long battle with cancer. (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune via AP, Pool)

Pittsburgh Pirates left fielder Sean Rodriguez rolls into the wall after making a diving attempt to catch a ball hit by Chicago Cubs’ Jonathan Herrera in the second inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Thursday, April 23, 2015. Two runs scored on Herrera’s triple. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Georgia Southern University students Teyaijah Givins, right, and Coretta Moye console one another following a candlelight vigil and memorial service for five nursing students who were killed in a multi-vehicle accident, Thursday, April 23, 2015, at Georgia Southern’s Statesboro campus in Statesboro, Ga. The deadly, chain-reaction crash early Wednesday on Interstate 16 involved six vehicles. (Scott Bryant/The Statesboro Herald via AP)

Matt Dayhoff started as a photographer for the Journal Star in 1992 shortly after graduating from the Ohio University School of Visual Communications. In 2009, he moved into the newsroom as an online editor and producer and is now responsible for helping manage and edit much of the editorial content on pjstar.com.